Assessment of Mechanical Properties of Light Weight Aggregate Concrete Produced from Textile Industry Waste Aggregate (TIWA)

Abstract

Maintenance of natural properties and preservation of environment is the core need of sustainable progress.
Construction consume huge amount of precious natural resources. On one side, this leads to faster depletion of natural
resources, on other side manifold increase in the cost of construction of structures pose severe issue for the building sector.
Secondly numerous waste materials are generated from manufacturing processes, service industries and municipal solid
wastes. The use of waste products in concrete not only makes it economical, but also helps in reducing disposal issues. In this
context solid waste obtained from textile during garments stone washing has been used for the preparation of light weight
coarse aggregate concrete and its properties such as compression hardness, tensile strength, flexural strength, has been
assessed. Differenttests was applied on concrete that is produced with exchanging of coarse aggregate with textile industry
waste aggregate (TIWA) waste in mix proportion as M0, M0, M20, M0, M40, M00. By testing of resulting specimens,
remarkable effect of industry light weight aggregate was noted on the mechanical properties of resulting compounds. After
results, it was concluded that with the addition of 00% of TIWA in concrete will decrease the compressive strength of 28-days
by 46.65%, tensile strength by 67.08% and flexure strength by 69.9 %.